Ugly New York
A postcard stand promoting negative images in New York City.
Part of Conflux 2008, New York City
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Outside In II, 2008, live performance
A continous effort in the Outside In series, where this time a painting frame is formed as a window to the outside. Opening the window and closing the window happen on two live video frames at the same time by a single act of painting. What appears disappears simultaneously, as if what is invited in is closed out simultaneously.
Part of Mani.fest, Weimar, Germany
The Messenger (Site Specific Sound Installation), 2008
Opening June 27 2008 as part of "Wanderlust".
Performance date:
June 27 9:30pm, Ilm Park Weimar
A Site-specific Temporary Sound Installation consisted of 7 channels of Walkie Talkie live controlled by a master Walkie Talkie telling an allegoric tale from an imaginary God's perspective.
Networked together, the 7 Walkie Talkies, along with 7 photographs were installed around the sceneric Ilm Park of Weimar, Germany, where an Eden-like garden zone was surrounded by the complex sound environment and its seven-headed strange wisdom.
The Messenger continues my exploration of networked spatial story-telling. The story itself was fragmentally sent to each randomly selected walkie talkie. The audience was not only appealed to reconnect the story, but take on their own tour of the mystified space as well.
This project is supported by Entente Florale Weimar and Public Art | Bauhaus University.
Screentest, video, 2008
A 2008 remake of Andy Warhol's Screen Test series, this time with a low resolution webcam. Targets are asked to freely use the built-in digital effects of the webcam to produce their own screen test video. Maximum manipulation of appearances resulted in a kind of non-identifiable digital identities. Part of Buffalo International Women's Film Festival
A Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets, live processing video loop, 2008
A Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets is a live computer processed video adaptation of French Oulipoian Raymond Queneau's legendary poem of the same title.
The original sonnet poem was consisted of 10 groups of 14 lines sonnets cut line by line, resulting in a flipbook of billions of different potential poem ready to be generated.
My adaptation, regardingly, takes in 10 videos of human bodies and cut them into 14 rows of video images with a computer program I wrote in Max/Msp Jitter environment. The program can potentially generate a hundred thousand billion video channels each bearing the same context yet different from one another.
At the same time, human bodies were also regrouped into a hundred thousand billion potential new bodies making interesting movements.
A Hundred Thousand Billion Sonnets can function both as a multi-channel video installation (however many channel possible), or an interactive live video installation with gallery viewers' bodies being composed into the sonnets.
Outside In, two channel video installation / live performance, 2008
Outside In is a two channel looping video installation constructing two non-existent spaces in between exteriority and interiority and creating an impossible collage of city space and human body.
The piece can also be performed live with a live video camera and real-time Max/Msp Jitter processing. While keeping covering her body with color paper, the performer's body appearing on a projection screen would be gradually replaced by an outside scenario. At the same time, the performer's body would be constructed onto the outside space. The process comes together as a interwining loop between the inside and the outside with no exit.